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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 21 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/21

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Clackmannan County FEMALE SERVANTS TAX Survey Continued

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32 Servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] Each £4.0.0
2 Servants at 5/- [£0.5.0] Each £0.10.0
19 Servants at 10/- [£0.10.0] Each £9.10.0
8 Batchelors at 5/- [£0.5.0] Each £2.0.0
2 Batchelors at 10/- [£0.10.0] Each £1.0.0
£17.0.0

I James Watsone surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination
of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount to the sum of
Seventeen Pounds Sterling And that upon the Eighteenth day of November
Current I delivered to Mr John Jameson Collector for the said County of Clackmanan
an Exact Duplicate of the foregoing Survey which contained my Oath that the
severall Persons before named were duly Served with Requisitions & Notices
whereby they were to be Charged with the Severall Duties hereby Certified
to be due by them
James Watsone Surveyor

Linlithgow 30th November 1790

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 21 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/21

Volume 21 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Angus, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Lanarkshire.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records)

The Scottish Exchequer, and subsequently the Court of Exchequer, were concerned with the accounting of collected taxes in Scotland. These taxes include the Carriage tax (1785-1798), Cart tax (1785-1798), Clock and watch tax (1797-1798), Dog tax (1797-1798), Farm horse tax (1797-1798), Servant tax (1777-1798), Hearth tax (1691-1695), Horse tax (1785-1798), Inhabited house tax (1778-1798), Land tax (1645-1831), Poll tax (1694-1698), Shop tax (1785-1789), Window tax (1748-1798). Following the Consolidating Acts (38 Geo. III cap. 40 and 41), the duties on windows, inhabited houses, male servants, carts, carriages and dogs were incorporated in Consolidated Schedules of Assessed Taxes (1798-1799).

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